Method of producing baskets and the like



March 12, 1929.

R. WEBER 1,704,876 METHOD OF PRODUCING BASKETS AND THE LIKE Filed Oct. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Fig. 1. ,Fig. 2.

March 12, 1929. R, WEBER 1,704,876

METHOD OF PRODUCING BASKETS AND THE LIKE Filed Oct. 7, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Q0 00 000 00 0 0 o o Q o 0 g [bi e22 for Patented Mar. 12, 1929.

PATENT OFFICE,

3101mm) WEBER, or DRESDEN-UBIGAU, GERMANY.

METHOD OF PRODUCING BASKETS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed October 7, 1926, Serial No.

The present invention relates to a new process for making baskets and other basket work structures, and among the chief advantages offered by this new process are much greater accuracy of the finished product than can be obtained by any other method now in use and sufficientinternal strength of the basket and the like produced in a perfectly positive manner. I

The illustrations show modifications of the device used in'applying the process.

Figure-1 is a sectional View of the turntable and the stake arrangement; Fig. 2, a sectional view of a slightly altered device; Fig. 3, a side elevation and partial sectional View of another modification; Figure 4 is a section taken in a plane passing through Figure 3 just above the intermediate plate; Figure 5 is a view of a finished basket and Figure 6 is a view of a specially executed base plate.

The inventionconsists in placing the bottom 3 of the object to be made on a base plate 2 capable of rotating about the axis 1 (Fig.

1), the plate 2 and the bottom 3 being provided with coinciding apertures to permit the insertion of stakes 4 through the bot-tom 3 and into the turntable'or base plate 2, whereupon the wall of the basket is woven in the usual way. After weaving has been finished the article is removed from the turntable base plate 2, and the bottom will then be found firmly arranged on the stakes below the woven wall of thebasket.

interwoven to form a. rim or border. In this manner abasket is constructed whose bottom 3 is firmly woven into the structure. The process just described is somewhat disadvantageous in that the holes of the bottom 3 and the base plate 2 must always coincide, which often causesdifiiculties in the practical application of the process. To overcome this drawback an intermediate plate 6 may be inserted between the bottom and the base plate,

and the ends 5 extending beyond the outer The ends ,5 projecting underneath the bottom are then signature.

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ciently and thus inserted inany hole of the base plate 2. Thus a base plate can be employed provided with a large number of concentrically arranged and closely adjacent holes 9, and the bottom may be of various shapes and provided with apertures to suit requirements. It will always be possible un- 'der this arrangement to insert an end 5 in that aperture 9 of the base plate 2 which happens toregister with'the corresponding aperture in the bottom. iv

When making baskets from willow it is further advantageous to provide for therelative vertical adjustment of the bottom, intermediate and base plates upon the shaft 1, which can be done by using the bearings 7, Fig. 3, in connection with locking screws.

The intermediate plate 6 shown in Fig. 3 is provided with radial slots .10, and the stakes I are not arranged along its circumference as in Fig. 2 but pass through its slots 10.

I claim g l. A-method of producing baskets and the like consisting in placing a preformed apere tured bottom on an apertured turn-table arranging and supporting vertical basket stakes in coinciding aperturesof said bottom and turntable; completing the sides of the basket by interweaving with the stakes;,removing the basketfrom the turntable and plaitingg the projecting stake ends together to form a run on the under surface of the bottom, so as to secure the latter 1n posltion.

2. A method of producing baskets and the like consisting'in placing a preformed apertured bottom on an apertured turn-table and I in interposing a distancing plate between the bottom and turntable, arranging and supporting vertical basket stakes in coinciding apertures of said bottom and turntable; completing the sides of the basket by interweaving with the stakes; removing the basket from the turntable and the distancing plate and plaiting the projecting stake ends together to form a rim on the undersurface of the bottom, so as to secure the'latter in position.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my nicnann WEBER. 

